Wilko administrators reveal locations of 52 stores to close next week and Newark is not on the list

Wilko administrators named the 52 shops set to close next week.

Administrators PwC announced that 24 shops will close next Tuesday, September 12 and a further 28 on Thursday, September 14.

The Newark store in St. Marks Place is not on the list of shops to close next week.

The chain owns 408 stores and employs almost 12,500 staff, of which 1,016 will lose their jobs next week.

The following will close on September 12: Acton; Aldershot; Barking; Bishop Auckland; Bletchley FF; Brownhills; Camberley; Cardiff Bay Retail Park; Falmouth, Harpurhey; Irvine; Liverpool Edge Lane; Llandudno, Lowestoft; Morley; Nelson; Port Talbot; Putney; Stafford; Tunbridge Wells; Wakefield; Weston-super-Mare; Westwood Cross; Winsford.

The following will close on September 14: Ashford; Avonmeads; Banbury; Barrow in Furness; Basildon; Belle Vale; Burnley (Relocation); Clydebank; Cortonwood; Dagenham; Dewsbury; Eccles; Folkestone; Great Yarmouth; Hammersmith; Huddersfield; Morriston; New Malden; North Shields; Queen Street Cardiff; Rhyl; Southampton-West Quay; St Austell; Stockport; Truro; Uttoxeter; Walsall; Woking.

It was announced yesterday that B&M is to buy 51 stores in a deal worth £13million and rebrand them as B&M.

It hasn’t been confirmed which Wilko shops it has bought, or if it will save any jobs.